This article 78 proceeding presents the unusual question of whether a municipality can confer the status of "nonconforming use" on an illegal use, retroactively.
On November 4, 1970, the City of Long Beach enacted an amendment to its zoning ordinance which permitted two-family dwellings in a one-family use district, if the two-family dwelling was in use and existence prior to said...
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